The Dos Anjos Family Name

Records tie Dos Anjos closely to Anjos. Its meaning, shared with Anjos, is “Angels”. With its Dos prefix, Dos Anjos keeps Anjos intact and marks belonging in the older style. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Dos Anjos with 229 bearers, at rank 82,317. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames. In the Spanish register, Dos Anjos appears 2,292 times as a first surname and 1,941 times as a second one.

Arms linked to Anjos and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Dos Anjos surname pack.